Grosse Pointe Memorial Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

From the record

“The Grosse Pointe Memorial Church (GPMC) is a church located at 16 Lake Shore Drive in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, USA. it is a member of the Presbyterian Church, USA (PCUSA). It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1990 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.”
Wikipedia article Grosse Pointe Memorial Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 396 National Register listings published here for Wayne County · listed in 1993 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 16 Lake Shore Dr., Grosse Pointe Farms, 48236
When was it listed? December 1993
Category. building
City. Grosse Pointe Farms city
Architectural style. Gothic Revival
National Register reference number. 93001351 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

47 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Grosse Pointe Memorial Church between 2018 and 2020, burning about 46 acres in total. 5 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	18
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Natural	5
Recreation and ceremony	3
Smoking	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
27 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DETROIT FD 0034676 - 2019
22 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DETROIT FD 0034155 - 2019
6 August 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DETROIT FD 0027928 - 2019
30 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ST CLAIR SHORES FD 0005454 - 2018
25 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DETROIT FD 0030316 - 2019
24 August 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DETROIT FD 0030178 - 2019
14 August 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DETROIT FD 0029062 - 2019
13 August 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DETROIT FD 0028947 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Beverly Road Historic District	0.1 miles	1995
Russell A. Alger Jr. House	0.2 miles	1982
Christ Church Chapel	0.2 miles	1993
Grosse Pointe High School	0.2 miles	1993
Paul Harvey Deming House	0.3 miles	1996
Academy of the Sacred Heart	0.4 miles	1987

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 93001351 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wayne County	All 396 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.